COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY

Carnival culture was on parade this week at CES. We’ve entered the Baroque phase of consumer electronics, wherein utterly unncessary techology is pumped up, supersized and repackaged with gimmicks in a desperate bid to garner consumer interest.
It’s quite appropriate for CES to take place in Las Vegas, the Mecca of vulgarity , vanity [...]

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Since when have conferences become the arena for gladitorial combat? Back in the day, conference moderators were content to let media moguls bore the audience with canned slogans and marketing points. But not today.
Something strange was afoot today at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad CA. A weird undercurrent [...]

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In October 2008, I was invited to give a talk at the 5D conference in Long Beach, CA.    Here’s the clip.
I had a great time at 5D.   I met terrific people, including brilliant speakers, visionary designers, committed event organizers and the director of the excellent contemporary art museum.   I learned a great deal, and saw [...]

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Check out this useful comment by Mike Hale in today’s NYT heralding the arrival of original video series on the Web.  For too long, broadcasters have regarded the Web as a dumping ground for uninspired promotional content and lame marketing gimmicks for the regular broadcast schedule.  Recently, however, some TV networks are starting to take [...]

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My speech at the Cross Media Lab in Melbourne was broadcast last week on ABC 2 in Australia.    The theme of this speech was “Collaborative Creativity”, which refers particularly to my passion for including the audience in the process of creating entertainment.    This is harder than it sounds.  I selected three examples from my personal [...]

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X Media Lab presented a collection of insightful speakers from around the world.   My brain was nearly overloaded by the end of the first day.
Below is a summary of some highlights.  I did not manage to take notes on all of the speeches, however.   For comprehensive reporting on XML, check out LagrangePoint where Brad [...]

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Wow, what a weekend.  I am seriously jet-lagged.    Just returned from X-Media Lab, which is an intensive three-day workshop held periodically in different cities throughout Asia:  Dubai, Shanghai, Seoul, Singapore, Mumbai.   Last weekend XML took place in Melbourne, Australia.
How XML works:  ten individuals with experience in digital media arrive from all corners of the globe.  [...]

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